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Pacific War, major theater of World War II that covered a large portion of the Pacific Ocean, East Asia, and Southeast Asia, with engagements occurring as far south as northern Australia and as far north as the Aleutian Islands. Trace the course of the war from Pearl Harbor to the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay.
The month-long battle for Manila resulted in over 100,000 civilian deaths and was the scene of the worst urban fighting by American forces in the Pacific theater. As the advance on Manila continued from the north and the south, the Bataan Peninsula was rapidly secured.
The casualties sustained in the Pacific Theater of World War II numbered around 36 million — about 50 percent of the war's total casualties. The fighting in the Pacific Theater was wrought with the same hatred, nationalism, and war criminality that raged across Europe.
USS Bunker Hill hit by two Kamikazes in thirty seconds on 11 May 1945 off Kyushu. The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II was a major theater of the Pacific War, the war between the Allies and the Empire of Japan.
Learn about The Pacific Theater in World War II primarily between the United States and Japan. Learn about the Allied strategies, major battles and casualties. Updated: 11/21/2023.
The interactive map to the left shows many of the major battles of the Pacific War. Clicking on them allows you to see the names and dates, as well as the number of casualties on both sides of each battle. These battles are color coded, with lighter colored dots showing battles earlier in the war.
Explore a timeline of the Pacific theater, from the invasion of Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific to the formal Japanese surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
On April 18, 1942, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle led sixteen B-25 bombers, launched from an aircraft carrier more than 600 miles out to sea, on a daring raid on Tokyo. Most of his planes hit targets in the capital. Although the raid caused modest damage, it embarrassed the Japanese government and greatly boosted U.S. morale.
Among the nearly 35,000 American casualties were General Buckner, who was killed on 18 June. He was succeeded by Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, who was in turn succeeded by General Joseph W. Stilwell, who arrived to assume command of the Tenth Army on 22 June 1945.
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